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Founder of Pinterest

Ben Silbermann

Ben Silbermann, CEO and co-founder of Pinterest, was

born in 1982. His parents who were both doctors raised

him and his sisters, who would later become doctors

themselves, in Des Moines, Iowa. He explained that

because his family’s engagement in the medical field,

he assumed that he would become a doctor and never

had any second thoughts about it. He pursued his

medical career until he was a Junior in high school.

Silbermann decided that he wanted to pursue a field in

business, so he became a consultant, in which

Silbermann says, he did not know what he was signing up

for because his entire workday consisted of making

spreadsheets. Silbermann attended Yale University and

graduated in 2003 with a Bachelor’s in political science.

In 2006, he worked with Google where he fulfilled the

duties as a product specialist, designing, testing, and

launching new products for advertising. Silbermann felt

that his job at Google gave him the ability to think big,

and he was amazed with the people who worked at

Google and the products that they created. While

Silbermann gained the obsession for creating products,

he felt restrained because he knew was not an engineer.

As a result, in 2008, Silbermann decided to resign from

Google for he wanted to broaden his horizions in

creating products.

Later on, he met with his longtime college friend, Paul

Sciarra, and together they started a compay that

revolved around building iphone apps called Cold Brew

Labs. Their first application was a catalog app called

Tote. However, Silbermann and Sciarra were unsuccessful

with Tote, and decided to abandon it. They both

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More Facts About Ben

Silberman

o The inspiration for

Pinterest came from

Silbermann’s childhood

obsession of collecting

things (he’s a proud

owner of a bug

collection). o Silbermann is married to

Divya Bhaskaran

(pictured below).

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teamed up with Evan Sharp, and the three created an

app that allowed users to create pinboards, which was

later named Pinterest. Based on popularity, Pinterest is

ranked number 32 internationally and ranked number 16

in America according to web traffic data company,

Alexa.

The three founders (From left to right): Sharp, Sciarra, and Silbermann

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Pinterest Numbers (Jan

2015)

o Pinterest has 70 million

users.

o 80% of adult users are

women.

o 13% of adult users are

men.

o 14.2 minutes is the

average time that is

spent per visit on

Pinterest.

o 98 minutes is the

average time that is

spent per month on

Pinterest.